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Microsoft Expression Blend is a user interface design tool developed and sold by Microsoft for creating graphical interfaces for web and desktop applications that blend the features of these two types of applications. Expression Blend 4 is the fourth version of Expression Blend released in May 2010, it adds support for Silverlight 4 and WPF 4 while also remaining compatible with Silverlight 3 and WPF 3.5 SP1 applications.

Microsoft Expression Blend is a user interface design tool developed and sold by Microsoft for creating graphical interfaces for web and desktop applications that blend the features of these two types of applications. Expression Blend 4 is the fourth version of Expression Blend released in May 2010, it adds support for Silverlight 4 and WPF 4 while also remaining compatible with Silverlight 3 and WPF 3.5 SP1 applications.

It also has many improvements over the previous versions such as shapes library, improved Photoshop file support, added pixel shader effects, path layout, transition effects, ListBox item transitions, Model-View-ViewModel pattern support, additional Behaviors, conditional Behaviors, sample data from CLR classes, design time resource resolution, easing functions for WPF 4, cleaner XAML, and .ZIP support for projects and templates.

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how to make SuckEffect in silverlight C#

How can I animate some object like ListboxItem when I click to start SuckEffect to go and hide to left corner of the screen, like deleting the item in the iphone. I was trying to do easy animation to make the flying animation. but it doesn't work…
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Error building building Windows Phone 7 project in Expression Blend 4

I got a Windows Phone 7 application project from a friend. Now I downloaded the SdK 7.1 from here. Everything installed fine and it includes Expression Blend 4 as well as VS 2010 Express for Windows Phone. Now the problem is that when I Run this…
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Error: The name XXX does not exist in the namespace 'clr-namespace:YYY'

I've just installed Blend 4 and are trying to use it with a rather big VS2010 project that includes a couple of C++/CLI assemblies with some native code. For a lot of controls I get a Blend error like 'The name XXX does not exist in the namespace…
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Where can I find Expression Blend 4 for Visual Studio 2010?

I wanted to try Expression Blend and found out that the product, Expression Studio, is discontinued. I have Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, and the only thing I can find on the website for Expression (http://www.microsoft.com/expression/) is software…
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Sort Properties of my Control in Expression Blend designer

I created my new Category "MyCategory" to store all my Properties of my Control, in design mode (Expression Blend 4), like theses categories: By default, all my properties under my Category are sorted alphabetically. Is it possible to choose the…
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Blend error "the name xx does not exist in the namespace yy" - but works fine in Visual Studio

So I've been working on a WPF project with Visual Studio 2010 for awhile. I'm using several class library projects with WPF controls that I wrote. Today I opened the solution in Blend for the first time, and it showed me many errors like this: "the…
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System.Expression.Interactions.dll does not include CallMethodAction

I have recently just installed Expression Blend 4 Ultimate to run along side my Visual Studio 2010. I have included the reference for System.Expression.Interactions.dll but it does not include the CallMethodAction within the reference. Does anyone…
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how to convert Photoshop layer effects("Inner Shadow","Outer Glow","Bevel and Emboss","Color Overlay,"Gradient Overlay") into editable xaml file?

I tried to import ".psd" file in Expression blend 4.But there is no way to get ayer effects("Inner Shadow","Outer Glow","Bevel and Emboss","Color Overlay,"Gradient Overlay") as Editable. is there Any other way to convert those layer style to…
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TextBlock disappears in windows phone emulator

I have textblock in my application, everything seems good, it is perfectly visible (all textblock) in expression blend and in visual studio. The problem is when I launch emulator. Textblock disappears at one moment, exactly after "Targets: Lower…
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Expression Blend 4 (Beta for Studio 11) + .net 4.5 - No design editor

I have been trying out Studio 11 and found a problem with Expression Blend. Seems that if I have a Studio 11 WPF project and set the target framework to '.NET Framework 4', Blend will show the design view, but if I set the target framework to '.NET…
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Silverlight, Expression Blend 4, using VisualStageGroup

I have created a really simple silverlight application as follows: …
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Expression Blend 4 Doesn't Work in Windows 8

When I run Expression Blend 4 on my Windows 8 x64, it just shows the splash screen and closes itself. Is there any way to make it work on W8? I have tried re-installing Expression Blend 4, uninstalling Expression Blend 5 but the same problem arises.
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Blend WPF project does not show intellisense for Colors

Hi this is a very 'beginner' question. I am doing a tutorial with Expression Blend, it is a Silverlight tutorial but I am trying to follow along in a new WPF project. I cannot seem to get the intellisense to work when I type 'colors' in the…
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WP7 Expression Blend generates outdated sample data

I have a data class in my C# project and when I try to generate some sample data in Expression Blend 4 it uses my some sort of oudated version of my class which creates the problem that my newly added properties aren't gernerated in the sample data…
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Blend unable to display design time data which Visual Studio 2010 can display

I have had a look at Another Question, however the error I am getting is more specific. This sample data uses a view model, which does not have a default parameterless constructor, it does have a public parameterised one though. I believe that…
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